get intern info off the website

[clarkbar]

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Is there anyway to get my intern info off the website when I'm done with it? I just don't like that kind of info accessible by anyone.

 

[confettiflyer]

as a licensed tech/RPh in some jurisdictions, your information is public as a matter of policy/public interest--the same reason why you can to see if your contractor, lawyer, barber, or physician is/was legit.

for california, once you graduate, your intern license will show that it's expired, but the information should still visible. If you're worried about privacy, use a PO Box (cheap) or some other address. My old pharmacist used a business address. Other than that, there's no way around it.

*I don't know your state, but for CA, intern license verification online does NOT contain an intern's home address...only for tech's/RPh's. This whole subject is state specific, so let us know what state you're in and someone can give you more specific advice.

 

[meister]

http://www2.dca.ca.gov/pls/wllpub/wllquery$.startup

This is the site confettiflyer is talking about. That's pretty weird they have tech addresses but not interns'.

 

[confettiflyer]

I think they understand interns are students whereas technicians are on par with pharmacists in terms of carrying responsibility in working.

Okay I don't think what I wrote makes sense at all...but for some reason I understand why interns and techs are treated differently.

Man, what a crackhead post.

 

[meister]

Oh let's not fool anyone, interns are techs with additional powers. At least P2s+, that is. P1s are just useless.

 

[Quiksilver]

as a licensed tech/RPh in some jurisdictions, your information is public as a matter of policy/public interest--the same reason why you can to see if your contractor, lawyer, barber, or physician is/was legit.

for california, once you graduate, your intern license will show that it's expired, but the information should still visible. If you're worried about privacy, use a PO Box (cheap) or some other address. My old pharmacist used a business address. Other than that, there's no way around it.

*I don't know your state, but for CA, intern license verification online does NOT contain an intern's home address...only for tech's/RPh's. This whole subject is state specific, so let us know what state you're in and someone can give you more specific advice.

its like you can check out how much your professors make, so long as you go to a state school! who's going to use your info, its not someone can go and pretend to be an intern, you need a permit!

 

[meister]

By the way, my name and old address are on the CA's license website. Get lucky and you could find out all my info. 😱

 

[confettiflyer]

i can probably just walk into your old pharmacy and peer across the counter to where the licenses are posted up. Granted, I put a little sticker over my address.

Yeah, P-2 = useful. P-1 = technician + the ability to do copies/call for changes/consult easy crap (abx susp. x780 times)

Actually no I disagree, P-1 interns take some phone load off the RPh on duty. I guess it depends on their level of training. My district trainer said I had already satisfied all the P-1 training requirements just by being a tech. I suppose if you're a newbie to CVS and get thrown in as P-1, you're stuck ringing people up.

 

[Praziquantel86]

It all varies on the state. New York, for example, only posts the town/city that the licensee is registered in. Techs don't even have to be licensed here (although the BoP is working on changing that shortly).

P1 usefulness also varies from state to state. We can't get our intern permits until after our P1 year in New York, so they're nothing more than techs with nicer lab coats (depending on what school they go to).

 

[Quiksilver]

It all varies on the state. New York, for example, only posts the town/city that the licensee is registered in. Techs don't even have to be licensed here (although the BoP is working on changing that shortly).

P1 usefulness also varies from state to state. We can't get our intern permits until after our P1 year in New York, so they're nothing more than techs with nicer lab coats (depending on what school they go to).

p1s are still quite useless😛😀

 

[meister]

Yeah, P-2 = useful. P-1 = technician + the ability to do copies/call for changes/consult easy crap (abx susp. x780 times)

You guys don't let techs call for changes?

 

[confettiflyer]

You guys don't let techs call for changes?

haha, well...i did as a tech. it was situational, our lead techs and one other tech called...otherwise, our pharmacists just didn't trust them.

but this one store i worked at was big on having the pharmacist hear it. we'd do the calls but the moment the secretary/nurse/MD said "okay change A to B" they'd throw in a "hey wait let me get a pharmacist to hear it" and grab the RPh to physically hear it.

what's the CA law on that anyway? i figure if a janitor or nurse can call in scripts, i'm sure a tech can...but in this wacky world we live in, that's probably not true. i always assumed it had to be an RPh or licensed intern and techs doing it was just an "under the table" way to speed things up.

 

[meister]

I think that what you're saying is pretty much true, in that an RPh or intern is technically supposed to take it. Me and one other tech would do it at my store but that was about it.

The law is stupid when it comes to that, really. RPhs should have the discretion to say who can and cannot take MD phone orders. It's not a big deal.

 

[confettiflyer]

I understand the logic in requiring a Rph or intern physically hearing the change in Rx, simply put they either have the drug knowledge (or, in the case of the intern, have the rights of a pharmacist so long as they're being supervised).

Granted, the career techs I've worked with know their stuff when it comes to drugs...but I do understand the logic.

Man I worked with this crazy floater who couldn't get anything right, I practically was doing everything save for the final verification. No, wait...I even scanned the label and "verified" it with her initials to get it out of the system and stacked them up for her to "verify for real" later.

I was taking scripts over the phone and transcribing scripts from vmail, hell I counseled on more than one occasion (all amox susp. for kids), much to the chagrin of the other career techs who said I probably shouldn't be doing that. I would have held back, but a) that Rph instructed me to continue and b) I was comfortable enough doing the tasks she threw at me, however illegal it was.

In retrospect, I probably shouldn't have done all that...but hey, I was selfish, and I wanted/felt comfortable enough doing it. Ahh CVS, what they didn't give me in wages, they paid me with interesting stories.

 

[Praziquantel86]

The law is stupid when it comes to that, really. RPhs should have the discretion to say who can and cannot take MD phone orders. It's not a big deal.

I disagree. If there is any risk of incompetence on the other end of the phone order (as happens in many scenarios), there needs to be a person who is somewhat competent on the other end. However much techs think they know what is happening, there is no way they can be fully aware without training in the field.

 

[clarkbar]

I understand the logic in requiring a Rph or intern physically hearing the change in Rx, simply put they either have the drug knowledge (or, in the case of the intern, have the rights of a pharmacist so long as they're being supervised).

Granted, the career techs I've worked with know their stuff when it comes to drugs...but I do understand the logic.

Man I worked with this crazy floater who couldn't get anything right, I practically was doing everything save for the final verification. No, wait...I even scanned the label and "verified" it with her initials to get it out of the system and stacked them up for her to "verify for real" later.

I was taking scripts over the phone and transcribing scripts from vmail, hell I counseled on more than one occasion (all amox susp. for kids), much to the chagrin of the other career techs who said I probably shouldn't be doing that. I would have held back, but a) that Rph instructed me to continue and b) I was comfortable enough doing the tasks she threw at me, however illegal it was.

In retrospect, I probably shouldn't have done all that...but hey, I was selfish, and I wanted/felt comfortable enough doing it. Ahh CVS, what they didn't give me in wages, they paid me with interesting stories.

I was refering to my name appearing on the website. I dont see why that info is necessary for a defunct intern license

 

[fhx06]

You guys do such wonders on my optimism about being a P1 intern.